The decision by the Israeli government to raise the number of reservists the IDF is authorized to call up in case of need — from 300,000 to 350,000 — has nothing to do with tensions in northern Israel, according to the military.
Rather, the IDF says the reason for increasing the cap relates to the operation in southern Gaza’s Rafah taking more personnel than initially planned.
Amid the war in the Gaza Strip, the IDF called up a total of 287,000 reservists, although many of them have already been released from duty for now. It marked the largest-ever call-up of reservists in Israel’s history.
The cap was initially set at 300,000, before being raised to 360,000 in the early weeks of the war. It was then dropped back to 300,000, and is now being expanded to 350,000.
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